Tabs
Notes open in tabs above the editor, the way a code editor does it.
- Click a note in the list and it opens in the preview tab, the one with its name in italics. Your next click reuses that tab, so browsing a vault doesn't leave a row of tabs behind you.
- Start typing, or double-click the note or its tab, and the tab stays.
- ⌘-click a note to open it in a new tab.
- Notes from any of your vaults share one bar. Choosing a tab from another vault switches to that vault.
- Your tabs come back when you reopen TypeFire.
Tabs are worked with the mouse here, because the browser keeps ⌘W and the other tab keys for its own tabs. Drag a tab to move it, middle-click to close it, and right-click for close others, close to the right, and open in a window of its own. Rest the pointer on a tab to see its vault, its collection and when it last changed.
The count at the end of the bar, beside the +, lists every open tab and the ones you closed recently. Type to filter them, click one to go to it, or close a tab from the list. The + makes a new note in a new tab.
Under its search, four buttons put the tabs in order once: Recent (the ones you used last first; click it again for the other way), A–Z (again for Z–A), Vault and Folder (grouped). Nothing stays sorted: new tabs still open beside the one you're on, and you can drag tabs as before. The message after a sort has Undo, which puts back the order you had. Close all closes every tab, and its message has Undo too.
Drag a tab up or down in the list to move it; the bar follows. To keep the list in view, click the pin at the right of its search field: it becomes a sidebar on the right of the editor, the full height of the window, and it stays there in focus mode too. Drag its left edge to make it wider or narrower. Right-click a tab in the pinned list for the same menu as a tab in the bar. While it's pinned, the count beside the + is orange; click it to unpin, and the next click opens the dropdown again. On a narrow window the pinned list steps aside until there's room.
Focus mode keeps the tab bar at the top, and the tabs button in the note's header puts it away for a bare page. Moving between notes keeps focus mode on. It has no shortcut at first: set one in Settings → Notes.
Documentation for TypeFire for Chrome. Updated 2026-10-12.